Electronic Cultures

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To critically assess the impact of, what Marshall McLuhan refers to as, ‘electronic cultures’ on contemporary social life, it is necessary to first understand what McLuhan means by, ‘electronic cultures’.
McLuhan was a Canadian, professor of English who extensively researched and wrote about the impact of media on society and man. McLuhan believed that to determine the impact of communication on social change the medium required analysis, not the content. He coined the phrase ‘the medium is the message’ that is, it is not the explicit message that has the greatest impact. It is the medium; the medium creates the level of human participation or action, independently of the overt message. Therefore, it is each different medium or method of sending and receiving information that defines the culture.
The first is oral culture; communication is transmitted via sound, such as speech and language that requires face-to-face social interaction. The second is writing and printing culture; information is transmitted and received using written and printed word. It is highly visual. The electronic culture is the third (Macionis & Plummer, 2010, p. 764, McLuhan, 1995); it is today's period. A majority of information is transmitted and received by means of electronic mediums. When the medium or the way we receive information changes so does the way the brain receives it and process it. The transition from verbal to printed text, changed not only how we process information internally but it also altered the need for two people to have face-to-face communication, information is received visually instead of auditory, and it was no longer a social activity, it became a solitary activity (McLuhan, 1995).
The medium we use ‘reinvents’ our consciousness (McLuhan, 1995) and changes our social lives (Macionis & Plummer, 2010, p. 764). This suggests the method or tool used…...

...Corporate Culture: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Source:http://www.icmrindia.org/casestudies/catalogue/Human%20Resource%20and%20Organization%20Behavior/HROB124.htm)
Apple is a US-based consumer electronics company, known for its ability to come out with path-breaking products. Experts have associated the innovation at Apple with its corporate culture. The case discusses in detail the corporate culture at Apple. At Apple, the work culture was driven by a passion for new products with no end to challenges and opportunities. The case discusses how Apple became the pioneer of the "Work Hard Play Hard" ethic. The corporate culture at Apple was exemplified by its intense work ethics. Though the work environment was relaxed and casual, there was a very strong commitment to deadlines. Analysts summarized the work culture at Apple as "fun, yet demanding”
It talks about how employees at Apple had to run their own show and work in a challenging and creative environment. Apple adopted a style that was not too formal or hierarchical and a more results-driven approach which worked best for them. The case also focusses on the career opportunities and employability security, compensation, and benefits offered to the employees by the company. The case explains how Apple fostered a culture of secrecy. The demand for absolute secrecy and insistence on control were infused into the company culture right from the beginning. There are various dysfunctional aspects of Apple's culture which led...

...modes;
* state which combinations of the control modes will most likely be found in typical control schemes;
* sketch typical control schemes for level, pressure, flow and temperature applications.
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INSTRUMENTATION EQUIPMENT
2.0 INTRODUCTION
Instrumentation is the art of measuring the value of some plant parameter, pressure, flow, level or temperature to name a few and supplying a signal that is proportional to the measured parameter. The output signals are standard signal and can then be processed by other equipment to provide indication, alarms or automatic control. There are a number of standard signals; however, those most common in a CANDU plant are the 4-20 mA electronic signal and the 20-100 kPa pneumatic signal.
This section of the course is going to deal with the instrumentation equipment normal used to measure and provide signals. We will look at the measurement of five parameters: pressure, flow, level, temperature, and neutron flux.
2.1 PRESSURE MEASUREMENT
This module will examine the theory and operation of pressure detectors (bourdon tubes, diaphragms, bellows, forced balance and variable capacitance). It also covers the variables of an operating environment (pressure, temperature) and the possible modes of failure.
2.1.1 General Theory
Pressure is probably one of the most commonly measured variables in the power plant. It includes the measurement of steam pressure; feed water......

...Originally named Amazin’ Software, Electronic Arts (EA) is an American developer, marketer, publisher, and distributor of computer and video games. The company was established in 1982 by Trip Hawkins and the company was a pioneer during the early home computer games industry. Hawkins has asserted that he had a goal to produce “software that makes a personal computer worth owning” (Hawkins, 2006, P.N.A). EA was solely a publisher for the first few years and exclusively published for home computers. They began developing games in the late 1980s and started supporting consoles in the early 1990s. (Wolf, 2012)
The early years as a publisher proved difficult mainly due to the fact that retailers were interested in well known brands like Atari. Many of Amazin' Software's internal employees disliked the name of the company, and so following multiple meetings, the new name Electronic Arts was established. Another change within the company came after nine years as CEO Hawkins left Electronic Arts and formed 3DO. (Henderson, 2009)
Also in the 1990s, EA began to expand buying multiple developers. Then early in the 2000’s, EA became one of the world's largest third-party publishers. Currently, the company's most successful products are sports games published under their EA Sports label; they also develop games based on popular movie licenses and games from long-running franchises like Need for Speed, Medal of Honour, The Sims, Command & Conquer and the later games in the Burnout......

...Cultural means "of or relating to culture or cultivation". Diversity is defined as "the fact or quality of being diverse; difference or a point or respect in which things differ". Put these two words together and you get "cultural diversity". Cultural diversity is defined as "the cultural variety and cultural differences that exist in the world, a society or an institution". Also known as multiculturalism, cultural diversity is based on the idea that cultural identities should not be discarded or ignored, but rather maintained and valued.
When I think of diversity I think "different" but I also think "change". I am in the military and you should be very diverse; you work with people from all types of backgrounds as well as from different countries, so you have to know how to keep an open mind. Diversity covers so many areas from work environment to living environment to a person way of thinking so to be diverse would make it easy for a person to flow from one scene to next. It also covers age, race, and gender. If there was no diversity everything would be the same, which would get boring very fast. Someone has to be the first. Think about the guy who created the wheel, I bet at first the people around him thought he was strange. He became a part of diversity when he accomplished this, look at how far his creation has gone. Now think about the history of our country and the world many different cultures have contributed to progress we have made thus far. For example:
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...EXISTING SYSTEM In Metropolitan cities, buses play an important role in the public transportation. Even though various kinds of transportations are implemented, the bus services still play a major part of the mass transit in Metropolitan cities. Due to increasing petrol and disel prices buses are the best alternative to own vehicles for the public. Additionally, it is much convenient since buses are available in atmost routes and bus passengers need not be worried for finding a parking area. The major problem faced by the passengers is delay in scheduled arrival time of bus to bus stop. The ITS- Intelligent Transport System is widely implemented to provide required information to passengers. In ITS every bus is mounted with a GPS module and electronic displays boards displaying arrival time of bus are placed in every bus stops. The Global position system (GPS) mounted as part of the Vehicle Mounted Unit in the bus will receive the longitude and latitude coordinates from the Satellite through a process of triangulation. This information is then sent across to the Central Control station through the wireless communication link – GSM / GPRS. The application at the Central control station on receiving the position inputs will update the display boards at the bus shelters / stops enroute and at the bus terminal platform display panel and the general display panel at the related bus terminals. The Passenger Information system will be driven by the following core sub-systems Central......

...To Use Electronics during School
Electronic devices, including cell phones, are very helpful resources during school hours. Emergencies always happen and in case of emergency cell phones come in handy. Students are required to pay attention in class, yet no one said anything about having to pay attention during lunch or passing periods. There should be no worries about students being distracted during lunch, or passing periods because class hasn`t started.
Electronic devices should be allowed during school hours. Parents always want to keep in touch with their children to see how they are doing during school. When there is an accident, there’s really no way to communicate with others because of this rule. Because of this rule, you don’t get any help because of the fact that you cannot use cell phones. Plus you don’t want to get in trouble, but you need to help the person who is hurt.
Phones can be silenced during class or study periods and active only in appropriate places. Like if you were after school and you have to silence it for athletic sports, stay after to get help from a teacher, in a library and etc. Because of a small mistake, students get punished. A teacher can assume that you’re texting because your phone went off, but they don’t have actual proof. Students need a stand for this because accidents always happen.
The other thing is that other electronic devices like cameras and IPods don’t make any disruptions unless they’re being used during school. Cameras......

...Electronic Arts FSA
Jacob Boyd, Zaki Hassan,
Katherine Meadows, Kristen Wilson
Electronic Arts was founded thirty-two years ago as a pioneer in home computer games that focused on the creativities of the designers and programmers responsible for its games. Today it is the third largest game publisher and developer in the world with over 1,300 games published under the EA title or one of its four brands. Electronic Arts developed a bad reputation in the early 2000’s and was voted twice the Worst Company in America award successively in 2012 and again in 2013. Notable issues with EA’s business practices included studio acquisition and management practices, employee treatment, quality of games, numerous lawsuits involving license agreements, DRM issues, and multiplayer server shutdowns. These issues and more saw the CEO of four years step down despite the gains he brought to the company. EA was struggling with diversification and limited intellectual properties rights. The old CEO helped EA diversify product lines and increase royalty contracts and intellectual properties rights. However, new initiatives will see these issues still being dealt with. In 2013, Andrew Wilson was appointed the new CEO of EA from one of its internal divisions. Andrew Wilson brought with him a distinct vision for the struggling company and a strategy to drive EA into the future of gaming.
Andrew Wilson introduced a three-point strategy to refocus the giant video game company. His......

...conduct to interfere with the ability to fulfill one’s professional responsibility. (Guide To Privacy and Security of Electronic Health Information, n.d.)
* All HIPAA related policies
* Your procedures, including the process to monitor security and steps for breach notifications as regulated by HIPAA
* The only time appropriate to discuss a patient’s medication or PHI is if it pertains to you job. It is not ok to discuss a patient’s prescription medication with another staff member, unless that staff member needs to know it.
* Even though a staff member might have access to a patients prescription medication list, or other medical information, it is still unethical for that information to be read, or accessed unless it pertains that that employee’s job. This is why there should be limited access on who can access certain data.
* Employees need to be advised of proper internet use, which should only be job related issues. Internet browsing might be thought of as innocent and not malicious, but the anti-virus protection that is installed on the computer can only protect so much. It is only designed to scan for certain definitions it is programmed with. With the rate of new virus’s being created each day, a safe practice needs to be implemented when searching on the internet.
System Requirement’s:
System:
The office needs to purchase an electronic health record (EHR) system. A certified vendor can be found at this website:......

...LABORATORY MANUAL
ECE -208
UNIFIED ELECTRONICS LABORATORY-II
COURSE CONTENTS
S.No. 1. Description Simulation using p-spice for zener diode used as a voltage regulator.
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Simulation using p-spice for operational amplifier as summer.
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Simulation of network theorem using p-spice.
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Design and analyse a differentiator circuit whose minimum frequency is 100KHz
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Design and analyse a integrator circuit whose maximum frequency is 100KHz.
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To analyze the characteristics of instrumentation amplifier using bread board and PSpice.
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To analyze the functionality of triangular wave generator using IC -741 To determine frequency response of cascade amplifier Darlington pair. To determine the frequency response of two stage RC coupled amplifier using complementary symmetry push-pull amplifier
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To analyze the functionality of Colpitt oscillator on output frequency using bread board and PSPICE
11. Implement phase shift oscillator using bread board and Pspice. 12. To analyze the functionality of Hartley oscillator on output frequency using bread board and PSPICE
EXPERIMENT 1 Title:- Simulation using P-Spice for Zener diode used as voltage regulator. Software Used- P-Spice Learning Objective: Through this experiment the working of zener diode will be proved. Procedure: The circuit of fig. 1 will be drawn on schematic editor of the software. 1. Use the circuit elements from the components option in P-Spice software. 2....

...David G. Fisher
Professor Hallawell
English 249 (Linguistics)
25 October 2011
Reading between the text message lines:
How a culture becomes dependent on electronic communication and changes language skills forever.
They are everywhere, in schoolyards, high school halls, businesses and even our own homes and they are having an effect on our culture at this very minute. You may even be reading this on one right now. They are cell phones and more and more they are being used for more than just talking; they are being used to send e-mail, text, and instant messages. What originally started out as a way to have more communication in case of emergencies and to have a way for teenagers and adults to stay connected to what is going on in each other’s lives has become a barrier to language abilities. (Bauerlein) In the immediacy of our consumer society we have become too reliant upon instant information and it has affected our way of communicating. A cell phone is now a device that can keep us continually linked to the internet, e-mail and text messages. The price for this convenience is that we have lost the ability to communicate effectively face to face or in writing, thusly loosing parts of our literacy level in this country.
When the miracle of cell phones first came into popular use, most people were not that interested in the text message mostly because there was an extra charge associated with using the feature. After more time and as the phone plans began to...